Author Archives: The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) Twelve years after barring execution of the mentally disabled, the Supreme Court on Tuesday prohibited states in borderline cases from relying only on intelligence test scores to determine whether a death row inmate is eligible to be executed. ...

(AP) A DNA sample has led to the indictment of a suspect in the 1992 slaying of a Richmond man. The Richmond Metropolitan Multijurisdictional Grand Jury charged 49-year-old Mark Anthony Fife with first-degree murder, robbery and burglary. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that ...

(AP) A Southwest Virginia jury has awarded $5 million to a defunct coal company and its owner in their long-running legal battle with Massey Energy over a coal supply contract. A Buchanan County jury awarded $4 million in damages to Harman ...

(AP) — The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation submitted the only bid for Carter’s Grove on Wednesday, then hours later said it would put the historic plantation on the market. The announcement came hours after a U.S. bankruptcy judge in Norfolk approved ...

(AP) Lawyers sparred Wednesday in federal court over whether race or politics were the main drivers in drawing Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District as trial began in a lawsuit accusing the General Assembly of “racial gerrymandering.” The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports plaintiffs’ ...

(AP) The corruption case against former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, is set to go to trial this summer after a judge tossed out a motion to dismiss most of the charges against the couple. U.S. District Judge ...

(AP) Former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife are due in federal court for a hearing on whether to dismiss most of the corruption charges filed against them. Judge James R. Spencer will also hear arguments Monday on whether McDonnell ...

NORFOLK (AP) Norfolk will pay more than $3 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the city owed about 900 current and former police officers overtime pay. The federal class-action lawsuit alleged that the officers were forced to clean their ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) For five years, a federal judge upset with the prosecution of a Florida professor once accused of being a leading terrorist has simply refused to rule on his case. It’s left the government unable to deport him, unable ...

(AP) State Sen. Creigh Deeds may sue a local community services board over treatment his son received shortly before attacking the lawmaker, then killing himself last year. Deeds’ lawyer, Monica Mroz of Roanoke, said Thursday that Deeds has filed a ...